Name What Works
Name What Works is a podcast for parents navigating the emotional ups and downs of raising teens. Hosted by therapist, consultant, and educator Ashley Radzat, each episode helps you look beyond the behavior, understand what is really happening in your teen’s brain and your own, and respond with more clarity, confidence, and connection. Ashley shares practical tools from her work with parents and schools, alongside conversations with leading experts in parenting, psychology, and adolescent development. Because the teenage years do not have to feel like a constant battle.
Episodes
Fear Less, Wonder More with Rachel Richards
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat talks with Rachel Richards, former BBC correspondent, parenting coach, mother of four, and host of Teenagers Untangled, about parenting teens with more curiosity, connection, and confidence.
Rachel explains that teens are not problems to fix. They are developing adults who need parents to approach them with wonder instead of fear. Her guidin...
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat talks with longtime teacher Matt Langley about teaching, public speaking, writing, and why helping children find their voice can change the way they see themselves.
Matt shares that after 30 years in the classroom, innovation is what has kept him coming back. He explains how his early work with creative writing showed him that children naturally want to tell stories, share ideas, an...
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat talks with Dr. Cameron Caswell about parenting teenagers with more understanding, less fear, and a stronger focus on connection.
Dr. Cam explains that teenagers often get labeled as disrespectful, lazy, unmotivated, or difficult when parents are only seeing the behavior and not understanding what is happening underneath it. She encourages parents to stop treating their teen like a pr...
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat talks with her longtime friend Tobi Becerra about the reality of being in the sandwich generation: raising a teenager while also caring for aging parents.
Tobi shares how her life changed when her parents lost expected income and her mom’s medical needs increased. Instead of her parents being the active support system she imagined, Tobi now finds herself helping manage their li...
What happens when you are raising children in different stages of life and realize the same parenting approach does not work for everyone?
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley talks with Gloria Lewis, parent educator, speaker, author, and founder of the Forever Parenting Project.
Gloria shares her experience raising three sons with six and seven year age gaps between them. At first, she thought parenting was simply getting hard...
What actually helps a teenager open up, build trust, and start finding their own way?
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley talks with Kahlo, a 17-year-old rising senior, hockey player, photographer, and future sports journalism student.
Kahlo shares what life looks like for him right now: hockey, friends, the gym, SAT pressure, college plans, and figuring out who he wants to become. He opens up about how photography became more...
What if the biggest support a child needs in school is not just a better plan, but a stronger
relationship?
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat sits down with her lifelong friend Natalia Hamalanien, a special education teacher with more than 20 years of experience working with
students who need extra support. Ashley and Natalia talk about dyslexia, special education, advocacy, parenting, and what it means to really see c...
What happens when a deeply feeling child becomes a teenager trying to fit in, find friends, and figure out who she really is?
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley talks with Phoebe, a former student she taught from first through eighth grade and has stayed close with into young adulthood.
Phoebe reflects on what it was like to grow up as a deeply empathetic child who felt other people’s emotions intensely. From an early a...
What if conflict with your child is not a sign that something has gone wrong, but part of the work of raising a capable human? In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley talks with Joe Newman, behavior consultant, speaker, and author of Raising Lions: How to Raise Children Who Can Handle Conflict, Difficulty, and Win.
Joe shares how his work began from the inside out. As a child, he was studied for hyperactivity and grew up in...
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What if the best parenting lessons do not come from getting everything right, but from being willing to listen, repair, and keep showing up?
In this episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat sits down with her daughters, Kobain and Ava, for an honest conversation about what it was really like being raised by a parent and teen coach.
Together, they talk about single parenting, blended family life, strict boundaries, teenag...
What if the moment your teenager shuts down, talks back, or makes a mistake is not proof that something is wrong, but an invitation to see the full picture?
In this first episode of Name What Works, Ashley Radzat introduces the methodology behind her work with parents, teens, families, and schools. As an educator, author, and parent-teen coach, Ashley helps parents move out of fear and back into connection by learning how to pause, ...
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